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Veteran diplomat Richard Holbrooke, who was President Obama’s special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, has died at the age of 69. Sarah Smith looks back at the life of the “foreign policy giant”.
I’m sure he didn’t actually smoke all the time, but I cannot ever remember seeing Radovan Karadzic not smoking. The fag, the almost quiff-like status of that barnet (easily the most ludicrous of the Balkan wars Vuk Draskovic included) and his often rambling, rapid -fire manner of speaking at assorted press conferences around Bosnia. And…
Dr Dragan Dabic, the erstwhile silver-bearded new age guru of Uri Gagarin Street, New Belgrade (until he was exposed last summer as the former Bosnian Serb leader and alleged war criminal Radovan Karadzic), is back in Courtroom One at The Hague this afternoon at 14:15 local time. His reappearance coincides with the reappearance in London…
Tens of thousands gather in Bosnia-Herzegovina to commemorate the execution of 8,000 Muslim men and boys 20 years ago. More than 1,000 have yet to be found.
Alex Thomson
“For 30 years I said nothing. But now, if these children meet someone who denies the Holocaust they can say, ‘No – Solly Irving came to see us. He stood before us. He told us’.”
Matt Frei
President Obama, pre-occupied with extricating the USA from his predecessor’s wars, has little stomach for military action in Syria.